The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-12-11
SIGNS OF THE TINES.
Big With Meaning to Those Who
Can Read Them.

what are the signs" IN our noun
tain home and to where do they CONT Z
Precedents are dangerous-when thev
do not tend to liberality and freedom.
The events Transporting before our eyes,
every day, cause Us to ask the question
Are we indeed living in the free land
of America, where the Stars and Stripes
wave with impartial justice, and en-
titling all to the right to life, liberty
and pursuit of happinessP Our boosted
freedom Is only q word that can be
given or taken, when we can be de-
prived of rights at will. The land of the
old world gives greater freedom of
thought-if We may judge by its insti-
buttons of individual establishment on
the question at issue. Has a com
munity the right to hold and control
moneys over and above $4,000? So
that those moneys are used for human
| itarian purposes, one would think In
dividuals and corporations should be
free to promote the good made possible
by com bining efforts. And that such Q
law, if it exists. had better go back to
| oblivion, from whence it was specially
revived to suit the purpose of fighting
Mornonism.
In Guise, France, we have Q corpora
ton numbering its thousands, known
as "The Industrial Palace" place
where labor and capital nave combined
In harmony. Many aid loved are the
encomiums on the name of Godin, the
instigator OF this corporation. One
writer said of him, after visiting the
palace: ''Godin, the grandest uncrowned
matchless architect, incorruptible
legislator, the founder OF familistera,
where labor and capital combine in per-
feet harmony, and all is peace, prac-
tically demonstrated, after fifteen years
experience. EVtr y town and village in
the United States should have its in
dustrial palace, fashioned alter GOdin's 6,
and every large city have q number
then squalor and demoralizing poverty
would gradually become extinct
through the moral com bination OF
united healthy households, with wise
economy and earnest co operation to
that end. Then the more enlightened
among the wealthy would be induced
to lend aid. if desired"
l have copied somewhat at length
from this criticism, as the subject
seemed to correspond with the
Mormon idea of cooperation,
and yet that community are forbidden
to cooperate in this way in free
America And are not permitted even to
do The work on a grand scale which
Miss Elizabeth Fry and others have
from the over crowded cities of Eu-
rOnn tho nnnr Uhn no 70 M nnnnrf1nifu
to become anything but poor born
poor, die poor is the verdict, in general
terms, where foot of land they can
never own, and heavens best gift to
man-tresh air-to many is denied
working for generations under
ground in coal pits. etc. It
seems to me that perpetual
emigrating fund is Godlike scheme,
and that the tithes of the rich shall
help to sup port the poor grander one.
At this time, with winter upon US, it
will go hard with the poor in Salt Lake
City who are looking for their daily
bread, from the tithlng Office, if there
are no. tithes or pesons to
whom to look; and while another
system of providing might be under ad-
visement. Many NAV perish for i'm
mediate succor. Wisdom would sug-
SSSl GAdL tAcIc UC tLIuo Slfou W UUuu d
new house before destroying the old
one, if better plan can be found to
meet the necessities of the times. A
community of goods and identity of
| financial interest has been favored by
many leading minds at divers times in
our world s history.
| | will quote John Stuart Mills on this
subject. He says: For my own part,
| am one of the strongest supporters of
community of goods, when re-
! sulting from an entire unity
of feeling in the owners which
make all things common be
tween them" John Stuart Mills
was always to be found in the front
ranks-a leader OF public thought-and
although an Englishman, living under
monarchical form of government, he
always had the courage of conviction
and dared to advance his views, even
though he stood alone. He was called
in England the Woman's friend in
Parliament, for he dared to defend
her rights and advance her position,
His own domestic life being one OF
perfect bliss, he sought to make all
women as free as his own loved wife.
Bat to return to the Signs of the
Times, Are they not big with mean
ing to those who can read them? In
truth be it said: God is writing every.
where. G. +. K.